Attachment for flour-barrels



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J. R. PAYSON, Jr.

ATTAGHMENT FOR FLOUR BARRELS.

No. 332,105. Patented Dec. 8, 1 885.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 332,105, dated December 8, 1885; Application filed April 3, 18%5. Serial No. 161,105. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH B. PAYSON, J r., acitizen of the United States, residing in C-hicago, in the countyof Cook and State of Illinois, have invented anew and useful Improve I ment in Attachments for Flour Barrels, of

which the following is a specification.

(If Heretofore flour sifters and measurers have ween used by hand separately either at the rtime of taking the flour from the barrel or sub Iaequently. Boxes or chests adapted to be ."lifilled with flour and provided with spouts at their under sides or bottoms, through which he flour may be sifted or measured, have also been employed. These chests or boxes, howver, form special articles of manufacture, and he sifters or spouts used on them are not capable of beingapplied to the original barrels in which the flour is bought, but the flour must if be transferred .to the chests.

The object ofmyinventionis to provideabarrel'head which may be readily applied to the ordinary flounbarrel, whereon it may be inverted after being opened, and through an 2 opening in which the contents of the barrel may be conveniently withdrawn as they are Wan ted; and this head may be provided with a sifter or measurer, or both, so that the withdrawing and sifting, or the withdrawing, sifting, and

measuring become simultaneous operations. These and other features of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description and the accompanying drawings, wherein 5 Figure 1 is a plan of my invention. Fig. 2 is a central vertical section of the same upon the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a like section showing a modification. Fig. 4 is a like section upon line 4 4 of one half the at- 0 tachment shown in Fig. 1, the other half being shown in elevation. Fig. 5 is a view, partly in section and partly in e1evation,of the modification, Fig. -3. Figs. 6 and 7 show a measuring device attached to the head, the

first being a section and the other partially a section and front elevation.

In said drawings, A represents an ordinary flour-barrel, the open end whereof is shown. B represents a platform, serving as a head temporarilyfor the said open end of the barrel. It may be a plane, flat surface, or hopper-shaped, as shown, the latter being prefthough not so economicalin manufacture. At the center of this head isadischarge-opening, 12, through which the flour is withdrawn as it is needed, and such opening may be closed by a simple gate, 0, or a sitter, D, may also be placed in it, or the sifter alone may be employed, as the flour will not ordinarily fall through the'opening guarded by a sifter unlessagitated or shaken.

To make my removable or attachable head lit the barrel,I provide it with an upstanding rim, E, and to make the joint between the two tight I preferably insert within the rima rubber packing'ring, E, such ring being attached to the rim in some suitable manner. The head may be attached to the barrel by thumb-screws f in the strap-pieces F, secured to the head in any appropriate manner.

The platform may be provided with legs G, so that it will act to support the barrel at a convenient remove from the floor, and casters g may also be employed, if preferred.

In the modification, Fig. 3, the platform or head is supported upon aboX or inclosed stand, H, having a drawer, h, to receive the flour, or a pan or other receptacle to be supplied therewith. In this case a sliding gate, h, ofthe same horizontal dimensions as the drawer, orsmaller, may be used to prevent any discharge when the drawer is pulled out. The wires cl (I serve as the stationary part of the sifter in the sifting operation. Handles or should be provided for both the gate and sifter.

In Figs. 6 and 7 the dischargeopening is continued downward, and two slides, C G, in-

serted therein, that portion of the discharge between said slides,and lettered O,being constructed to hold some predetermined quantity of the flour.

Although I havedescribed a sitter and temporary head to be applied to the open end of a barrel, and fastenings for attaching to the barrel, as well. as supports for the same, I'wish it understood that the particular construction of none of these is of the essence of myinvention, and the same istrue of the measurer.

In the use of my invention it will be found convenient to apply the head to the barrel before the latter is inverted. 1

I claim- 1. As a new manufacture, acombined gated flour-barrel head and stand adapted to be aperable for the better discharge of the flour, plied to the barrel before it is inverted and to support it after inversion, substantiallyas and for the purpose set forth.

2. As a new manufacture, a combined gated flour-barrel head and stand adapted to be applied to the barrel before it is inverted and to support it after inversion, and provided with a Sifter, substantially as specified.

3. As a new manufacture, a gated flour-barrel head and stand provided with a measuring device, substantially as specified.

4. As a new article of manufacture, an improved barrel-head provided with means for securely attaching it tothe barrehand having agatedopeuing and supports, the whole being adapted to be applied as a barrel head to an open flour-barrel before inversion, and to permit the barrel to be inverted without spilling the contents, substantially as specified.

5. A-united barrel-head, sifter, and barrelstand adapted to be securely attached to an open barrel before inversion, substantially as specified.

JOSEPH R. PAYSON, J R. \Vitnesses:

EDW. S. EVARTS, NAT. J. BAUR.

It is hereby certified that in Letters Patent No. 332,105, granted December 8, 1885, to Joseph R. Payson, jr., for an improvement in Attachments for Flour Barrels, an error appears in the printed specification requiring correction as follows: The part of a word and the words erable for the better discharge of the flour, which now appear as the first line in column 1, page 2, should be transferred to and become the first line of column 2, page 1; and that the specification should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed, countersigned, and sealed this 22d day of December, A. D. 1885.

[SEAL] H. L. MULDROW,

Acting Secretary of the Interior. Oountersigned R. B. VANOE,

Acting Commissioner of Patents. 

